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BR E-News for 02/19/11

Aloha to all you wonderful friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope you all had a very Happy Valentine's Day.

In case you didn't hear the good news, on February 3rd Punxsutawney Phil did not -- I repeat did not -- see his shadow. So you know what that means, right? It means that Eric and Darrell are extending the Chinese New Year 33% sale at the BRP online store. Spring is in the air, so they want all of you to help them clean out the BRP inventory.

The "official" title of this continuing 33% discount sale is: The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 - 100 Sale.

Visit the online store and help Eric and Darrell spring clean out everything:

2. The entries -- prose, poetry, or hey! even plays -- must be between 100 WORDS minimum and 100 LINES maximum. Sound familiar? It's a cross between the 100-word short-short story contest and the 100-line submission maximum for the upcoming 100th issue of BAMBOO RIDGE.

If you plan to approach the 100 line maximum, please draft your work following the original submission guidelines: double-spaced with 1” margins, using 12 pt. Times Roman.

3. Every entry must have a title, and that title does NOT count against either the word total or the line total.

4. In the section below the title where it says

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece:

You must include your word count. For example:

Title: Why I Live at Black Point in the Winter

A blurb about your piece or a good quote from your piece: 832 words

Body: After I made my first million, which was way too easy, blah blah blah . . . blah blah blah. So that's why now I can only afford to live at Black Point for three months a year.

5. There are TWO writing themes to choose from, inspired by pieces from the first two issues of BAMBOO RIDGE way back in the 1970s when Eric and Darrell were child prodigies:

Theme Number 1: Nowadays Not Like Before
Theme Number 2: A Letter to ____________

Pick one theme -- or both if you'd like that challenge -- and write your entry accordingly.

6. Winners will be announced shortly after 2:00 p.m. HST on March 31st and will win Bamboo Bucks credit to spend in the BRP online bookstore.

7. Winners may or may not be published in a future issue of BAMBOO RIDGE : )

So there you have the ten rules -- oh, sorry, it's only seven rules -- of the first Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100 - 100 Contest

Note: If you'd like to read the two pieces used for the theme choices, you can find them here:

FEATURED ISSUE

In the Company of StrangersISBN: 978-091004381-633% OFF COVER PRICE!
Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait. - R. Zamora Linmark, author of [i]Prime Time Apparitions[/i] and [i]The Evolution of a Sigh[/i]
The essential subject of these captivating stories is memory, but memory filtered by what cannot–or even should not–be said. The corrosive effects of a secret history, the burdens of understanding, are limned through stories both spare and lyrical. In a way, these stories tell a kind of love story: the love of a daughter for a heritage that, even while suppressed or denied, can never be erased. - Marianne Villanueva, author of [i]Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila[/i] and [i]Mayor of the Roses: Stories[/i]
Michelle Cruz Skinner shows us again that exile sometimes captures the body and sometime the heart; she writes closely about love and life in a family and we see that distance, longing, and desire all can contribute to the things misplaced in translation. - Ron Carlson, author of [i]Five Skies[/i] and [i]The Signal[/i]